Exodus 9:15-16

The Seventh Plague: Hail

15 For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 b But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so c that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 9:17
    For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
    Exodus 10:1 - 2
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them.
    Exodus 11:9
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
    Exodus 14:17
    And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.
    Proverbs 16:4
    The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 83:18
    That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
    Isaiah 63:12
    Who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name.
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